Ivana MacKinnon

Wild Swim Films, a collaboration with Emily Leo, was founded in 2019, and has produced four films. Molly Manning Walker’s HOW TO HAVE SEX premiered at Cannes 2023, winning the prize of Un Certain Regard and being nominated for four BAFTAs; it was released internationally in late 2023. TUESDAY, a mother-daughter fairytale starring Julia Louis Dreyfus and Arinze Kene, was being released internationally in summer 2024 after a premiere at Telluride 2023. NOCEBO, a contemporary thriller directed by Loracan Finnegan and starring Eva Green, was released in theatres internationally in 2023. BRING THEM DOWN, an Irish revenge thriller starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2024 and was released internationally in 2025. The film won the Best Debut Director prize at the BIFAs as well as Best Film at Fantastic Fest, Best Screenplay at the Rome Film Festival, and the FIPRESCI prize at Mannheim-Heidelberg.

Prior to Wild Swim, Ivana produced Michael Peace’s BEAST, which won the BAFTA for Best Debut Film 2019, was nominated for the BAFTA for Best British Film, and received 11 BIFA nominations. Beast was released internationally in 2018, after premiering at Toronto in the acclaimed Platform strand.

In 2013 Ivana Exec Produced WAR BOOK, a Jack Thorne-penned and Tom Harper helmed political thriller starring Sophie Okenedo and Antony Sher, having worked with both writer and director previously on their debut THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS.

Ivana was Head of Creative Affairs for Cloud Eight Pictures and Celador Films from 2002-2012, working across films as diverse as SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and THE DESCENT.